Back
some twenty years ago, a few very fortunate international radio monitors were
able to log the Adventist radio broadcasts from the RFO shortwave station
located on the island of New Caledonia in the South Pacific. These broadcasts were not under the
jurisdiction of Adventist World Radio, though they were produced in a studio
that was also producing programs for broadcast over the AWR shortwave
network.

South American listener, Antonio
Riberio do Motta of Sao Luiz do Paraitinga in Brazil, heard one of these
broadcasts and he submitted his report to the AWR studio in Poona India, and he
was issued a courtesy QSL card that was signed by the wife of the studio
director, Violet Peterson. The QSL card
showed a green map of the world, and it verified the reception of the French
language AWR studio programming via a 20 kW transmitter on 7170 kHz in Noumea
New Caledonia on November 8, 1984. A
truly rare QSL card.

International
communication came to Guam when the undersea cable linking San Francisco in
California with Manila in the Philippines was completed more than one hundred
years ago. The underwater section from
San Francisco to Honolulu was completed during the year 1902; and in 1903, the
three sections linking Honolulu to Manila via Wake Island and Guam were
completed by two cable ships, the Anglia and the Colonia. The final cable junction with Guam was
connected on June 5, 1903.

Initially, a temporary wooden shack
housed the equipment for the cable terminal just off the beach at Sumay near
Agana on the western coast of the island of Guam. On July 4, 1904, President Theodore Roosevelt
officially opened this new TransPacific cable system, and then on April 2 of
the following year, a new and permanent cable house was taken into service.

Running concurrently with the
installation of this massively long cable system stretching for more than 8,000
miles across the almost empty Pacific Ocean was the development of a United
States naval wireless system on the island of Guam itself. Construction work on this new navy wireless
station, which was installed on Mt. Macajna some two miles south west of the island
capital Agana, began during the year 1904.

The two wireless masts were imported
into Guam, as was all of the electrical equipment, including a 3 kW spark
transmitter and an electricity generator powered by a kerosene engine. This new wireless station, under the American
navy callsign NPN, was taken into service on January 26, 1906 and it served as
an intermediate communication link between Honolulu in Hawaii and Manilla in
the Philippines.

Subsequently, a 5 kW German
Telefunken transmitter was installed at Mt. Macajna, though in 1914 this was
swapped for a 2 kW unit from Cavite in the Philippines in an attempt to obtain
direct transmission between the Philippines and the American mainland. Usage of this transmitter location at Mt
Macajna was phased out around the end of World War 1.

In 1917, a new naval wireless station was
constructed on Nimitz Hill, at Asan a little south of Agana. In earlier times, Nimitz Hill was known as
Fonte Plateau, and subsequently as ComMar Hill.

This large new station was planned
to accommodate two spark transmitters at 100 kW each, though initially only one
at 30 kW was installed. Two towers
standing at 600 feet were raised for the antenna system. The control point for this station was also
at Nimitz Hill, and the on air signal from this wireless station was described
as wideband and scratchy.

In 1929, another new naval radio
station was constructed at Libugon, a couple of miles inland from Nimitz
Hill. Initially, this station held three
spark transmitters, two at 100 kW and one at 30 kW, though soon afterwards,
additional regular shortwave and mediumwave transmitters were installed.

However three years later, all of
the transmitters were removed from Libugon and re-installed in an annex
building on Nimitz Hill. At this stage,
a Radio Intercept facility was transferred from an isolated inland location to
Libugon, and the tall towers were replaced by sloping V antennas. This Intercept Station, identified as Station
Baker B, was in use for monitoring all forms of Japanese radio transmissions
during the era that led up to the beginning of the Pacific War.

During this pre-war era, the navy
experimented with the installation of radio stations at several additional
locations on the island of Guam. For
three years, a receiving station was in use at Yigo on the northern tip of the
island (1921 - 1924); a direction finding Radio Compass Station was in use on
Mt. Santa Rosa for three years (1922 - 1925); and an additional transmitting
and receiving station was in use at Merizo at the southern tip of the island
(1922 - 1925). The transmitters from
Merizo were then re-installed at Nimitz Hill, and the main building at Merizo
is used these days as a youth recreation center.

Back in the early 1930s, Globe
Wireless established their own communication station on Guam, and the shortwave
transmitter and tower were located on Globe Wireless Hill, an abutment
overlooking the beach and the ocean, between the two Devils Horns on the
central western coast of the island. In
July 1930, several shortwave frequencies were approved for use by Globe
Wireless on Guam, though no callsign is shown in the official government
documents.

In fact, no primary callsign is
shown in any of the known documents of that era, though two apparently subsidiary
channel callsigns, KDC and KFQ, are shown in a shortwave callsign list in
1933. It is possible that the primary
callsign for Globe Wireless on Guam back then was KFH, a callsign that Globe
Wireless did use on Guam a half a century later.

This Globe Wireless shortwave radio
station served a two-fold purpose: As an intermediate relay station between the
Philippines and the American mainland, and also for the transmission of
commercial traffic and news reports from Guam back to the American mainland.

There were two shortwave stations
located in the waterfront area of Sumay on the central west coast, not far from
the original cable terminal of 1904. A
Marine station was installed in a solid structure building in the waterways at
the end of a causeway, a wooden jetty, in 1921, though it was subsequently
moved ashore.

Then in 1935, PanAm established a
shortwave radio station in Sumay for communication with its fleet of
TransPacific Clipper flights. PanAM took
over and modernized the old seaplane facilities that had been used previously
by the Marines, and the PanAM shortwave station was installed in conjunction
with the new and superior PanAm Hotel.

Two
days after the Pearl Harbor attack in December 1941, the Japanese invaded the
island of Guam and they accepted its surrender, so what happened to all of
these many radio stations? The navy
communication station NPN at Nimitz Hill was destroyed in Japanese air raids, as
was the Marine Corp station at Sumay. The Globe Wireless station had been abandoned
some months before the war began, though the tall self standing tower was still
standing.

The PanAm station KNBG was bombed
but not destroyed in the initial air raids, and in the evening of the second
day of aerial attacks, a final message was transmitted to the continental
mainland, and then the operator deliberately destroyed the electronic
equipment. The Libugon station that had
served as a naval transmitter station and then as a secret monitoring station
was destroyed in aerial attacks, and the location is now an overgrown jungle
area on a jungle hiking trail that is popular with visiting tourists as well as
with local residents.

(DSWCI/DX Window 547)Brazilian DX News
Brazil Central Radio of Goiânia (GO), returned to face problems in their broadcasts shortwave. Weeks ago, the station was down to 11815 kHz, however, strong spurious emitted from 11850 to
11875 kHz. The station resumed broadcasting in 11815 kHz, however, in last days, is off the air on that channel, but also on 4985 kHz.
There have been regular tune here in northeastern Brazil Radio Rural education, of Tefé (AM) in 4925 kHz, from 22:00 UTC.
The Rural Education Radio is affiliated to RCR, Catholic Radio Network, and partner Radio Bandeirantes of São Paulo (SP), which relays the "Journal in Three Times "at 18:00 UTC.
Lenildo da Silva / DX SOCIETY/ Daniel Wyllyans/HCDX
(translation via google 28 Jan)

4955.00 Radio Cultural Amauta, Huanta, at 1115-1127, man and woman chat in
Spanish, good signal. (Wilkner)

Also heard in Peru at 1128-1150, music in Quechua, ID: "en Que-chua Radio
Amauta", advs in Quechua, SINPO 44444.

5980.00 Radio Chaski, Urubamba, Cusco, at 2350-0005. Radio Trans Mundial
program, religious semantics music does not give Radio ID, but Red Tambien was
also indicated at 1115-1210, SINPO 22222.

ID: "Triple K, su radio del folclor, marcado la diferencia". Note: My
firstgrasp of the ID chain with Triple K radio and listen to more than once.
SINPO 44444.

6174.04 Radio Tawuantinsuyo, Cusco, at 0050-0110 on new frequency 6174.038 (before 6173.85)
kHz, there is not the previous buzz, very clean news in both Quechua and
Spanish, ID: "A traves de Radio Tawuantinsuyo", program Noticiero RT,
advs in Quechua, SINPO 44444.
(Pedro F. Arrunategui-Lima-Peru, via dswci DXW Jan 20)

entered into a decay phase after 22 January and was only responsible for three weak C-class flares. Region 2488 continued to exhibit growth since its emergence on the disk on 18 January and was responsible for two weak C-class flares. No Earth-directed coronal mass ejections (CMEs) were observed during the summary period.
No proton events were observed at geosynchronous orbit.
The greater than 2 MeV electron flux at geosynchronous orbit was at normal levels on 19-20 January, moderate levels on 21 January and high levels on 18 January and again on 22-24 January. The maximum flux of the period was 12,881 pfu observed at 24/1550 UTC.
Geomagnetic field activity ranged from quiet to major storm (G2-Moderate) levels. The period began under quiet conditions for the majority of 18 January. At approximately 18/2056 UTC, a small
shock was observed in ACE data indicating the arrival of a CME from a filament eruption on 14 January. Total field (Bt) initially increased from 6 nT to 12 nT with solar wind speed increasing from
300 km/s to near 380 km/s while the Bz component fluctuated between +6 nT and -9 nT. By 19/0935 UTC, the Bz component deflected north and total field increased to 14 nT. A subsequent rotation of the Bz component occurred after 20/0325 UTC to a maximum of -13 nT followed by another increase in the total field to a maximum of 21 nT at 21/0545 UTC. By this time, the Bz component was fluctuating between +/-18 nT. By 21/1006 UTC, Bt decreased to around 8 nT, while the solar wind speed increased to around 530 km/s as the solar wind began to transition into a negative polarity coronal hole

high speed stream (CH HSS). The geomagnetic field responded with an unsettled period late on 18

and unsettled to major storm levels (G2-Moderate) on 21 January. Solar wind speeds continued around 500-550 km/s under CH HSS influence until late on 23 January. Solar wind speeds continued to be elevated in the 450-500 km/s range through the end of the period. As a result, the geomagnetic field

was at quiet to active periods from 22-24 January.
Forecast of Solar and Geomagnetic Activity 25 January - 20 February 2016
Solar activity is expected to be at very low to low levels with a slight chance for an M-class flare (R1-R2, Minor-Moderate) from 25-31 January as Region 2488 continues to develop.
No proton events are expected at geosynchronous orbit.
The greater than 2 MeV electron flux at geosynchronous orbit is expected to be at mostly high levels due to recurrent CH HSS activity. A return to moderate levels is expected on 25-26 January, 07-08 February, and 14-18 February.
Geomagnetic field activity is expected to be at unsettled to active levels from 25-30 January, 02-03 February, 07-10 February, and 17-20 February due to recurrent CH HSS activity.

7324.96 Wantok Radio Light (presumed). Thanks very much to Hiroyuki
Komatsubara (Japan) for the alert that WRL has reactivated after being off
the air for some time now; Jan 10 with severalopenings with CRI off the air.
1257-1258 heard religious song; this opening is usually 1, 2 or 3 minutes
long.

After 1357 (China Radio Int'l sign off time) heard very weak signal clearly
off frequency as usual; by 1413 UT had definite religious songs; 1418 tentative ID and back to religious music; 1424 UT CRI transmitter
turned on covering WRL. Nice to have them back on the air
again!

7324.94 Wantok Radio Light (presumed). Jan 11 was a repeat of
yesterday's log; very poor/very weak, but able to make out the religious
music; 1357-1402 UT announcers; 1402-1424 UT music. Thanks again to
Hiroyuki Komatsubara (Japan) for the alert, as he first heard them Jan
9at 1411.

Mauno Ritola measured 7324.942 kHz, so slightly lower
that when last on the air. This new slight change was also noted by Bryan
Clark in New Zealand - "Heard fading in here around 0800 UT today [Jan 11]
and quite readable by 0830. I'm thinking their frequency may be a little
lower than when I last logged them?" and Mauno confirmed. (Ron
Howard-CA-USA, DXplorer via wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Jan 10 / 11)
(BCDX2/Top nx 1237)

Friday, January 22, 2016

Here is the schedule for the next test broadcast of Marconi Radio International:

24th January 2016, from 0930 to 1300 UTC

Our frequency is 11390 kHz and power in the region of 30 watts. Test broadcasts consist of non stop music, station identification announcements in Italian, English, French, Spanish and Catalan as well as DX shows in English and Italian.

MRI encourages reception reports from listeners. Audio clips (mp3-file) of our broadcasts are welcome! Until now reception reports, found to be correct, have been received from 15 countries: Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Italy,
Netherlands, Romania, Russia, Spain, Switzerland and Ukraine. The station has been logged in Portugal and Demark, too. We are anxious to receive feedbacks from more countries!

We QSL 100%. A special 30th anniversary QSL verification will be sent out to confirm reports about ALL transmissions aired in January 2016. So if you don’t want to miss the chance to receive such MRI special QSL, tune to 11390 kHz, write a report about one of our next Sunday morning
transmissions and send it to our electronic mail address: marconiradiointernational@gmail.com Please don’t forget to include your postal address as some lucky listeners will also receive a printed QSL card.

Last but not least, we need your help! If you use social networks, please post an announcement on Facebook or send out a tweet the day before the broadcast. You can also forward this message to a friend. This should help increase our potential audience.

We hope to hear from a lot of shortwave listeners about our transmissions.

Best 73's
Marconi Radio International (MRI)
Short wave test broadcasts from Italy on 11390 kHz

The
mediumwave radio station KDKA
in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania is frequently honored for its long and illustrious
history, beginning when radio was very young and extending continuously over a
period of almost a whole century. Its
career began hesitantly towards the end of the year 1920, and it is still on
the air to this day with its powerful 50 kW signal on 1020 kHz.

This historic American radio station
is sometimes regaled as the world’s
oldest radio broadcasting station, a claim that is often disputed. However, this is not the claim that station
KDKA makes for itself, and its own claim as “the world’s oldest commercially
licensed radio broadcasting station” is completely accurate. The original government license issued to K DKA
confirms the accuracy of their statement.

However, in spite of claims and
counterclaims laid by several other stations, both within the United States and
beyond, it is true without dispute that station KDKA laid a groundwork and
forged ahead with their own development in such a way that the history of radio
broadcasting can almost be described as pre-KDKA and post-KDKA. The informal inauguration of 8ZZ- KDKA on
November 2, 1920 is a pivotal event in the worldwide history of radio
broadcasting as a widespread communication medium.

In addition to the international
impetus that KDKA gave to mediumwave broadcasting, their influence in the
development of shortwave broadcasting is equally evident. However, due to the status and involvement of
KDKA as a combined radio broadcasting facility, in our program today, we
examine the mediumwave development only of this fortuitous station, before we
subsequently penetrate into their shortwave history.

Radio station KDKA began its
broadcast service in the evening of Tuesday November 2, 1920 under a phoned in
authorization allowing the temporary usage of the callsign 8ZZ. The entire facility was housed in a quickly
assembled wooden hut erected on top of Building K at the Westinghouse factory
in East Pittsburgh Pennsylvania. The
newly made 100 watt transmitter radiated on 545 kHz at the low end of what has
since become the standard mediumwave broadcast band, and the antenna was a
single wire attached to a nearby industrial chimney stack.

The initial election-results
broadcast from the new KDKA began at 6:00 pm and even though the results soon
confirmed the successful bid for presidency by the Republican candidate, Warren
G. Harding, the station remained on air all during that night of stormy weather
until midday next day. From then onwards, KDKA
maintained a regular broadcast schedule of music and information, usually
during the evening hours. Some ten years
later, an article in a radio magazine declared triumphantly: Since its inauguration,
station KDKA “has not missed a
single day of broadcasting”.

The first broadcast studio for KDKA
was no more than a microphone with a cable plugged into the transmitter. However, in May of the following year (1921),
they experimented with live broadcasts of locally produced music in the factory
auditorium in East Pittsburgh.

However, undamped reverberation was
a major problem, so they erected a tent on the roof top of the eight storey
Building K, next to the wooden transmitter shack. This temporary location was in use until a
stormy wind blew down the tent, which they then erected indoors in a room at
the factory on October 3, 1921

Give a year later, and KDKA opened
studios in the downtown William Penn Hotel at 530 William Penn Place in
Pittsburgh. Twelve more years and a new
suite of studios was commissioned in the giant skyscraper Grant Building, a 40 storey behemoth located at 310
Grant Street in downtown Pittsburgh; this official transfer occurred on their
fourteenth anniversary, November 2, 1934.

The KDKA studios remained here for
nearly a score of years, and then they transferred to another location at 1
Gateway Center a complex of four skyscrapers constructed on the grounds of
several previously demolished buildings.
Just five years ago, KDKA moved
again, this time to its now current location in Foster Plaza 5 at 651 Holiday
Drive, on the western side of the three rivers that flow through
Pittsburgh.

During the past almost one hundred
years, the major on air studios for KDKA have been installed at five different
locations within the Pittsburgh areas.
Likewise, the major transmitter facilities for mediumwave KDKA have also
been installed at five different locations within the same environment.

The original 100 watt transmitter
was installed in the wooden shack on the top of the eight storey Building K in
the Westinghouse factory complex at East Pittsburgh. The original antenna, a single longwire
affixed to a nearby chimney stack, was soon afterwards replaced by a four pole
antenna system arranged in the shape of a perfect square.

In July 1924, the KDKA transmitter
was installed into a new building, designed in the form of a single storied
house, on Greensburg Pike at nearby Forest Hills. A license was granted for KDKA to utilize three
different transmitters at that location, with a power rating from 500 watts up
to 10 kW. The regular broadcast channel
at this stage was 920 kHz.

Half a dozen years later, KDKA was
ready to move again, this time to a much larger property at a better location,
some 20 miles north of Pittsburgh. A new
building on the 120 acre site at Saxonburg contained several transmitters with
a total power output of 300 kW; the mediumwave transmitters were installed in
the north end of the building and the shortwave transmitters were installed in
the south end of the same building.

Approval was granted for KDKA to
make a gradual transfer of operations from the old transmitter site at Forest
Hills to the new transmitter site at Saxonburg during the latter half of the
month of September 1930. It was also at
that Saxonburg location that KDKA built their famous superpower transmitter
W8XAR which was licensed at 400 kW with approval to transmit experimentally
from 1:00 am to 6:00 am on 980 kHz.

Just eight years later again, KDKA
was ready for the next move, this time from Saxonburg to Allison Park, just 8½ miles from downtown Pittsburgh. A new transmitter building, designed in the
New England Colonial style, was ready for the transfer in early 1940, and the
1937 tower at Saxonburg, standing 718 ft tall, was dismantled and re-erected at
Allison Park.

At this location, a new Westinghouse
50 kW model 50HG was installed; then some 30 years later two 50 kW transmitters
made by Gates were installed, and in turn these were replaced more recently by
two Harris transmitters at 50 kW each.
To this day, KDKA is still on the air at the Allison Park location, with
50 kW now on 1020 kHz, some ¾
century since this site was brought into service.

We might also add, that half a
century ago, KDKA maintained an auxiliary back-up transmitter facility at 4337
Fifth Avenue in downtown Pittsburgh. At
the time, the signal from a 5 kW mediumwave transmitter was shunt fed into a
tower that was subsequently taken over for use by a new TV station WQED.

Mediumwave radio broadcasting
station KDKA has always been a reliable verifier of listener reception reports,
and over the years they have responded with a goodly variety of excellent QSL
cards.

Blog Log
6020 kHz, 1052 UTC Radio Gaucha - Reactivated - Porto Alegre - RS, Brazil with male announcr's newscast and events of the day. Reference to the city of Porto in 1:43 video. Presumably they have problems in the transmitter, there is a noise, possibly the transmitter. SINPO 33222 (Jan 18, 2016) Daniel Wyllyans, Brazil/HCDX)

One thing I discovered is that, when receiving and decoding Olivia 64-2000,
it is important that the receiver bandwidth be wide enough to include all of the
data, which extends to 2500 Hz above and below the carrier frequency. Otherwise,
you cannot take advantage of all the redundancy built in to the Olivia 64-2000
mode.
Those of you who can record the audio using an SDR receiver can experiment
with various bandwidths, shape factors, AM versus SSB, etc.

Anyway, last weekend's Olivia 64-2000 was so much fun that we'll include one
news item in that mode this weekend, in addition to our usual MFSK32.

Here is the lineup for VOA Radiogram, program 147, 23-24
January 2016, all in MFSK32 except where noted:

The Mighty KBC will transmit a minute of MFSK32 Sunday at 0220 UTC
(Saturday 9:20 pm EST) on 6040 kHz, via Germany. Please send reports for KBC
reception to Eric: themightykbc@gmail.com .
I will use this weekend of snow in Washington to catch up on your
reception reports. I'm now alternating between the oldest and newest reports,
gradually working my way to the middle. If you haven't seen the gallery of
MFSK32 images I send in response to reports, a recent example is posted here
...

Radio Tirana 7465, 1835. Lady’s French news roundup into
French rock/pop tunes. Text about Albania. French continues this frequency at
031-2100; English service 2100-2130 (Sunday-Friday). (Van Horn, NC/SDR-NL)

Clandestine

North Korea Reform Radio 7590, 1500-1530.* Announcer’s
lengthy Korean text. Station
identification to address quote at 1528, followed by Asian musical bridge,
lady’s station information to flute/piano music. Station sign-off at 1530 (Van
Horn, NC)

VOIRI 11955, 1820-1904. French service sign-on
identification. Newscast of national and international topics to 1842. Text about Iraq to 1848. Intro to
correspondent’s report, and questions.
Musical bridge 1853 to continued features. Hausa service audible from
1850 check on 12040 to Africa. Announcer’s text, audio portions from a speech. ID routine 1902
into continued Hausa programming. Parallel frequency noted on SDR check
NL-Twente. Scheduled for 1920 sign-off. (Van Horn)

Trans World Radio Africa 6130, 1818-1830. Station
interval signal with English ID; “this is Trans World Radio Swaziland”
(repeated three times between interval signals). Station sign-on identification
at 1820 into religious praise vocals.
Announcement into religious sermon in presumed Chokwe service as indicated on
current winter schedule. (Van Horn, NC/SDR-NL Twente)

PBS Xizang Lhasa Tibet 6130, 1507-1700. Monitoring via
SDR-NL Tweente with Tibetan service. Station features, Chinese music selections
and announcer friendly format. English service commencing at 1600 with “this is
China – Holy Tibet Radio.” Station information including website http://www.betradio.com , postal address,
and information about station. Programming of travelogue specials, cultural items
on Tibet, news about Tibet and interviews. “Welcome to Tibet” at 1628 into
program as “Eye on Tibet.” Parallel 7385 audible, despite heavy co-channel
interference. Monitored the next day via SDR on 7255, 6130, and 7385. English
service from 1600 with “this is Holy Tibet Radio” identification with same
sign-on routine. Tibet features, National People’s Conference, music programs
and much more (Van Horn, NC/SDR-NL)

United States

WINB/Overcomer Ministry 9265, 1930. Brother Stair’s
sermon and book offer with address information. No sign of his programming on WHRI
17520 // 17610, targeted to Africa. Audible on 11825 to North America via WRMI,
no sign of // 15770. Programming continued with his usual format (Van Horn, NC)

WRMI/Tru News 9395, 1935. Two pastor’s discuss end times,
current affairs in the U.S. and Europe, as related to Bible prophecy. Signal
good, 443. (Van Horn, NC)

Radio Méditterranée Internationale (Medi 1) 9575, 1602-1620. Arabic
service with newscast, followed by Arabic music tunes and two announcer’s
conversations. French pop rap tunes from 1512-1515. Continued
conversation –suspect concerning the French artist and music as “rap” and “classic”
mentioned several times. (Van Horn, NC)

Oman

Radio Sultanate of Oman 15140, 1450-1520. English service at
tune-in. DJ’s Friendly banter and pop music tunes. Switch to Arabic at 1457 with
station announcements to Arabic musical bridge. Brief promo, brief two minute prayer from 1503.
Arabic 1505, with station identification and mentions of Muscat. Arabic newscast from 1507 with extra coverage
on Syria and Bashar al-Assad, and Iran. Additional
ID 1515. Station feature 1516. (Van
Horn, NC)

Saudi Arabia

Radio Saudi-Holy Qur'an 13710. Tune-in from 1520. Arabic
discussion about Mohammed and the Qur’an. Parallel on 17615 though weaker at
343 SIO. Radio Saudi-Call of Islam from 1526. Arabic text, from two male
announcer’s-with “on-the-scene” reporting, and feedback with studio. Parallel
on weaker 15225 kHz. Qur'an programming on 15205 from 1559 (Van Horn, NC)

Radio Thailand QSL (Gayle Van Horn Collection)

Thailand

Radio Thailand 9390, 1910-1925. English service covering
news on Her Majesty Queen Sirkit, followed by a feature on the National Core
Values, set forth by the King of Thailand. Program feature Thailand Travelogue
, featuring Jazz by the River. Global News topics, followed by Business News.
(Van Horn, NC)

Turkey

Voice of Turkey 15200, 1540-1550 Arabic service including music program to lady’s
two-minute headlines between musical bridges. Noted on parallel 9665 kHz,
though considerably weaker. Websites www.trtarabic.com
and
www.trtarabic.net
quoted. Station program feature. Great Turkish music with occasional “TRT Ankara”
mentions. (Van Horn, NC)